Matthew J. Sánchez

making young me proud 🌞 founder + perfumer @matteoparfums ✤ prev. Eroma Health (exit), @capitalone, @alumniventures, @ucla math & chem | 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇬🇭

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

2026: I’m expressing gratitude for these things that I am/are already mine in 2026+

1. I’m a magnet for miracles, pleasant surprises, and answered prayers
2. I’m a chosen one (“favorite”) whose blessings come seamlessly
3. I own America’s best-selling fragrance brand of all time

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

2025: Successfully Unite & Amplify

this year l prioritize making my house a stunning, comfortable home. I ask that my launches/creations are brilliant and wildly successful. I continue praying for plentiful pleasant surprises in my life—reward my risks, my efforts, my desires

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

🤠🐎🌞🏜️🦂🥃

[MATTEO PARFUMS @matteoparfums]

There’s no place like home: it’s fragrance season in our home state of California 🩵

We’ll soon be enjoying Coastal California at World Perfumery Congress (WPC) 🦭

On June 24, 2026 come to our talk “Digital Alchemy: Fragrance Creation in the Age of AI”.

With 10+ years…

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

Thinking about the number of times I was told “your friends are really protective of you” this weekend 😌😊

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Love when my baddie friends have baddie friends

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Waking up to a handful of flirty DMs and new follows on IG after going to LB for my friend’s birthday party (cowboy themed) last night

So yeah mission accomplished

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Word on the street is Zara Larsson loves & wears “Celadawn Darling” perfume 🩷💚👀

.@zaralarsson let me give you a signed bottle ✨

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@TYRISPRINT “Sauce in the bag, is my favorite kinda man (condiment)” wait, bar 🔥🔥🔥

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I’m the real Dirty Dan

Oh, and this happened 🤠🌟🌞

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@blackout_abe Gracias chulo 🫶🏽 If you’ll be at Josh’s, see you soon

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“You look like a mix between Robert Downey Jr, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bad Bunny, you know that?” — sweet lady @ Panera 🥐🧈

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

@Tam3ron That’s comedy. No Benito, just Matteo lol

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I know this isn’t a diary but, I must say one of the hardest parts about being a caregiver to a parent with Parkinson’s is dealing with hallucinations & psychosis

This has been such a struggle

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It was a perfect weather day yesterday 🌞

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Drake’s trying to occupy the top 3 album spots 🧊🥶

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🤠🐎🦂🌞

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your body loses one to two pounds of water every night just from breathing and sweating in your sleep. By morning, you're already mildly dehydrated. Any water on an empty stomach feels like relief.

Hot water on an empty stomach absorbs fast because nothing else is competing for it. Within fifteen to thirty minutes, most of it has already moved through your stomach and into the small intestine, where the actual hydration happens.

The popular reasons hot water feels so good are mostly wrong, though. Your liver and kidneys do all the detoxing in your body, and they couldn't care less what temperature your water is. And the "hot water boosts metabolism" claim is actually backwards.

A 2003 study at a Berlin hospital had healthy people drink half a liter of water and measured their calorie burn afterwards. It jumped 30% and stayed elevated for about an hour. Almost half of that calorie burn came from the body warming the water up to body temperature. If the water is already hot when it goes in, your body skips that work. You actually get a smaller calorie burn from hot water than cold. Across the day, two liters of water adds about 95 calories of extra burn either way. About a banana's worth.

What hot water does well is wake up your gut. There's a reflex in your body where, whenever your stomach stretches with food or liquid, your colon starts moving things along. This reflex is strongest in the morning. Researchers in 2019 compared three temperatures of water (ice cold, body temperature, and hot) and found the warmer two caused stronger stomach contractions than the cold one. So hot water on an empty stomach lands at exactly the time and temperature your gut responds best to. This is why people who drink it often head to the bathroom soon after.

There's also the warmth itself. A warm liquid in your throat and stomach causes the small blood vessels there to relax and widen, kind of like stepping into a hot shower on a cold day. The bloated, sluggish morning sensation starts lifting because of this relaxation effect.

So when she says "y'all weren't lying," what she's feeling is rehydration, a triggered bathroom reflex, and a warm internal hug to the gut, all hitting in the same minute. The warmth just turns up the volume on a response your gut would have anyway.

[Matthew J. Sánchez @MatthewJSanchez]

Thinking, thinking, thinking 🪎🏴‍☠️💭

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@mchpdax Happy birthday week Taurus 🎂🌞🤠

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Actually had the tastiest (first) date last night. Kinda shook and thankful, I need more of this